– (Editor’s note: Clair E. Carpenter, pastor of the Adirondack Community Church in Lake Placid, wrote a guest column titled “Thinking together.” Below is the text of that column.) Recently I received three letters: the first criticized something I had said in the pulpit. (Anyone has a right to do this.) The second letter was sarcastic in tone because the writer had found the front door of our church locked at 9:15 in the evening. (The door is open from 7 in the morning to 9 in the evening.) The third letter criticized the actions of another person and would I please go set that person straight and tell him “what trees made shingles.”
May 2, 2021
As fall is to leaf-peeping, spring is to waterfall-watching, a seasonal pursuit now underway in the northern and higher regions of the United States.
Waterfalls can range from thunderous plunges to delicate mossy trickles. They can be backcountry pop-ups or the centerpieces of parks, like Great Falls Park in McLean, Virginia, and Silver Falls State Park, near Salem, Oregon.
There’s no agreed-upon definition of a waterfall, according to Joel Scheingross, an assistant professor of geology at the University of Nevada, Reno, who studies those that detach from the bed of a river, creating an air pocket between the face and the water jet. Waterfalls, he explained, can be the result of glacial carving (as at Niagara Falls), or through faults in tectonic plates. Places where hard and soft rock mix often produce waterfalls pouring over a harder rock cap that carve away soft rock below.
Thunderous Plunges and Mossy Trickles: A Spring Guide to Waterfalls
Across the United States, a glorious array of waterfalls awaits nature lovers. And what better time to admire them than now, when snowmelt and spring rains add to the drama?
An unnamed waterfall that Chris Whiton, a nature photographer, stumbled upon in the Rumney-Stinson Lake area of New Hampshire.Credit.Chris Whiton/White Mountain Images
By Elaine Glusac
Published April 30, 2021Updated May 3, 2021
As fall is to leaf-peeping, spring is to waterfall-watching, a seasonal pursuit now underway in the northern and higher regions of the United States.
Waterfalls can range from thunderous plunges to delicate mossy trickles. They can be backcountry pop-ups or the centerpieces of parks, like Great Falls Park in McLean, Va., and Silver Falls State Park, near Salem, Ore.
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The longest tubing trip in New York, on the oldest natural attraction in the United States, will be back to floating for 2021 after COVID closed it last year.
Explore the Grand Canyon of the Adirondacks this summer as you take a trip to Ausable Chasm to enjoy hiking, camping, whitewater rafting or tubing.
Float tours are very popular in the summer and may be more so this year after being cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus. You re advised to arrive as early in the day as possible to avoid a possible wait. Reservations aren t available, so you may have to wait 30 minutes or more after 12pm.